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“I don't believe in luck. We make our own good fortune.”

Book:How to get whatever you want out of life

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How to get whatever you want out of life

This book offers strategies and techniques for maximizing success and happiness in life. more

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Joyce Brothers

Joyce Brothers was a renowned psychologist, born on October 20, 1927, and passed away on May 13, 2013. She made significant contributions to the field of psychology, particularly in the areas of counseling and therapy. more

“Evolution is a theory in a special philosophical sense of science, but in terms of ordinary laymen's use of language, it's a fact, .. Evolution is a fact in the same sense that it's a fact that the Earth is round and not flat, [that] the Earth goes round the Sun. Both those are also theories, but they're theories that have never been disproved and never will be disproved.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“It is grindingly, creakingly, crashingly obvious that if Darwinism was really a theory of chance, it could not work.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“The patient typically finds himself impelled by some deep, inner conviction that something is true, or right, or virtuous: a conviction that doesn't seem to owe anything to evidence or reason, but which, nevertheless, he feels as totally compelling and convincing. We doctors refer to such a belief as 'faith'.”

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Book:A Devil's Chaplain

Source: A Devil's Chaplain

“Mutation is random; natural selection is the very opposite of random.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“The Darwinian theory is in principle capable of explaining life. No other theory that has ever been suggested is in principle capable of explaining life.”

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Book:The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

Source: The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design

“My untidy habits drive me to follow the slash-and-burn principle. Work on a virgin table until the mess becomes unbearable, then move on to a clean table in a clean room - or, on a beautiful summer day like this, one of the five tables dotted around the garden. Trash that table and move on again.”

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Author:Richard Dawkins

“The feeling of awed wonder that science can give us is one of the highest experiences of which the human psyche is capable.”

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Book:Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

Source: Unweaving the Rainbow: Science, Delusion and the Appetite for Wonder

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